Blue Coat ICAP Patience Page XSS

medium Nessus Plugin ID 69442

Synopsis

The remote HTTP proxy server is vulnerable to a XSS issue.

Description

The remote host is running a version of Blue Coat ProxySG that suffers from a XSS issue.

An attacker can exploit this issue by sending a malicious link that will redirect the user to the ICAP 'Patience' page which will echo the link back, unfiltered.

Solution

Contact the vendor for a patch.

See Also

https://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122210321731789&w=2

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 69442

File Name: bluecoat_icap_patience_page_xss.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: remote

Family: CGI abuses

Published: 8/22/2013

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Information

Required KB Items: Proxy/usage

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/21/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-4485

BID: 31543

CWE: 79

IAVT: 2008-T-0060